I was thinking the same thing. The Sinfest plot isn't so much linear as static, or cyclical. The characters are doomed to repeat the same cycles of behaviour, to drive each other crazy, but also to attain occasional states of grace. There's definitely something deeply Christian about that.

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I was thinking the same thing. The Sinfest plot isn't so much linear as static, or cyclical. The characters are doomed to repeat the same cycles of behaviour, to drive each other crazy, but also to attain occasional states of grace. There's definitely something deeply Christian about that.

that actually sounds a lot more eastern.
here in america, we get peanut butter eating televangelists._________________Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS"

I was thinking the same thing. The Sinfest plot isn't so much linear as static, or cyclical. The characters are doomed to repeat the same cycles of behaviour, to drive each other crazy, but also to attain occasional states of grace. There's definitely something deeply Christian about that.

that actually sounds a lot more eastern.
here in america, we get peanut butter eating televangelists.

It's Christian in the sense that all of the characters (except God, and maybe Pooch and Percy) are fallen, being conflicted against themselves, against the outside world, against a specific Other, or in the Devil's case, against everything. That may play into other religions as well, but if I'm not mistaken, Eastern religions often emphasize a kind of transcendence which never seems to happen in Sinfest (I shouldn't have used the expression "states of grace" in my last post; try instead "states of relative harmony").

But the cyclical nature of time (which Sinfest also follows) is a prominent feature of Hinduism.

Aha! Pointless counterpoint.

EDIT: By contrast Judaeo-Christian tradition follows the idea of progress, near continual movement towards a desired (or even undesired) outcome._________________The older I get, the more certain I become of one thing. True and abiding cynicism is simply a form of cowardice.

[...]all of the characters (except God, and maybe Pooch and Percy) are fallen, being conflicted against themselves, against the outside world, against a specific Other, or in the Devil's case, against everything.

Life, dude. That's life. It has nothing to do with religions.

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Ok, lets get back to topic, which is the comic itself and not the theological discussion behind it.

... and who the fuck are you to tell people what to talk about anyway?

i like that, in slick's fantasy as he talks to the devil, he's really tall.

Perhaps tellingly, there are two girls wrapped around him and one standing adoringly to one side - and neither of the two wrapped around him are 'Nique. He wants her to watch and regret? Surely otherwise he would ask the Devil just to give him 'Nique.